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- the present invention relates generally to a method of inducing flat frequency modulation response characteristics in a semiconductor laser, and also to an electrode arrangement for a semiconductor laser for attaining such a flat modulation frequency response.
- optical heterodyne transmission technologies which are now under development, utilize a semiconductor laser as a single-mode light source.
- Such an optical heterodyne transmission allows signal receiver sensitivity to increase in the order of one digit as compared with direct detection techniques and, further is able to render optical frequency division multiplexing a practicality. This latter mentioned technique is seen as the key to the next generation of optical or coherent communications systems.
- FSK Frequency Shift Keying
- PSK Phase Shift Keying
- ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
- an optical signal to be detected by heterodyne detection techniques can be produced merely by modulating an injection current to a semiconductor laser.
- FSK features that (a) a transmitter can be configured in the same manner as in ASK and (b) receiver sensitivity is improved as compared with ASK. Accordingly, the research and development of FSK modulation of a semiconductor laser are extensive.
- the instant invention is directly concerned with an improvement for achieving a wide range of flat frequency response in a direct frequency modulation of a semiconductor laser.
- the oscillation frequency of a semiconductor laser depends on a thermal effect wherein a refractive index of the laser increases with increase in the modulation current.
- This frequency deviation is referred to as a red-shift, viz., a shift to a lower frequency with increase in the modulation current.
- a carrier effect becomes dominant and the oscillation frequency of the semiconductor laser shifts to a higher frequency with increase in the modulation current. This is referred to as a blue-shift.
- a frequency modulation response should be flat over a wide modulation frequency range.
- an electrode of a Distributed Feedback (DFB) type semiconductor laser is divided into a plurality of sections.
- the bias conditions of the currents applied to the plural electrodes are appropriately controlled.
- This approach has been proposed in a Japanese paper entitled "Bias Dependence of FM Response in Three-electrode Long Cavity DFB-LD" by H. Miyata, et al, No. C-143 of 1990 Spring General Assembly of Japanese Electronic Information Communication (prior art paper No. 2).
- this prior art has encountered the difficulty that the bias conditions are strictly limited for exhibiting a satisfied frequency response.
- Japanese Patent Application No. 63-50205 which was primarily published Sep. 6, 1989 under publication No. 1-223791, discloses a four-electrode DFB type semiconductor laser (prior art paper No. 4). According to this publication, a phase control region is provided with two electrodes one of which is reverse biased, and a frequency modulation is implemented in the reverse biased region.
- this prior art disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 63-50205 has encountered the difficulty that a suitable efficiency of frequency modulation is not expected in that the refractive index variation in the reversed bias region is insufficient.
- FIG. 1A is a perspective view of a known multi-electrode DBR type semiconductor laser chip 10, while FIG. 1B is a cross sectional schematic of the laser chip 10 of FIG. 1A viewed at section I-I'.
- the laser chip 10 includes three regions: an active region 12 (300 ⁇ m long), a phase control region 14 (150 ⁇ m long), and a DBR region (500 ⁇ m long).
- An Sn-doped n-InP substrate 18 carries a grating 20 (240 nm pitch, 7 ⁇ 10 17 /cm 3 carrier density) on the top surface thereof at the DBR region 16.
- a non-doped InGaAsP active layer 22 (0.1 ⁇ m thickness, 1.55 ⁇ m wavelength) is formed on the substrate 18 in the active region 12, while an InGaAsP wave guide layer 24 (0.2 ⁇ m thickness, 1.3 ⁇ m wavelength) is present on the regions 14, 16.
- a p-InP cladding layer 26 (2 ⁇ m thickness, Zn-doped, 1 ⁇ 10 18 /cm 3 carrier density) is formed on the active layer 22 and the wave guide layer 24.
- a Zn-doped p-InGaAsP contact layer (0.5 ⁇ m thickness, 1 ⁇ 10 18 /cm 3 carrier density) is grown over the entire region of the cladding layer 26, after which an electrode layer of Cr/Au is formed on the entire surface of the contact layer.
- the contact and electrode layers undergo preferential etching to be divided into three electrically isolated electrodes. As shown in FIG. 1B, the divided contact layers of the regions 12, 14 and 16 are respectively denoted by 28a, 28b and 28c, while the divided electrodes of the regions 12, 14 and 16 are represented by 30a, 30b and 30c, respectively.
- another electrode 32 is formed on the side of the substrate 18, which is opposite to the active layer 22 and the wave guide layer 24.
- a mesa stripe 34 is formed, after which Fe-doped, InP layers 36 and 38 are formed on either side thereof (see FIG. 1A).
- the laser chip 10 is mounted on a diamond heat sink (not shown) with the p-type side up configuration.
- An oscillation threshold current, a differential quantum efficiency, a maximum light output are, 20 mA, 0.15 W/A and 30 mW, respectively.
- the active region 12 is injected so as to obtain a light output of 10 mW, wherein an oscillation wavelength is 1.550 ⁇ m.
- FIG. 2 wherein a method of directly modulating frequency of a light output is schematically illustrated.
- a laser chip structure shown in FIG. 2 is identical with that of FIGS. 1A and 1B. Accordingly, like numerals are used and redundant descriptions will be omitted for brevity.
- the oscillation frequency of a semiconductor laser encounters a thermal effect wherein a refractive index of the laser increases with increase in the modulation current (viz., red-shift).
- the frequency of the modulation current exceeds several MHz, the oscillation frequency of the semiconductor laser shifts to a higher frequency with increase in the modulation current due to carrier effect (viz., blue-shift).
- the frequency modulation response may be plotted as indicated by a chained line 50 in FIG. 4. It is clearly understood that a flat frequency modulation response cannot be expected over a wide range.
- the frequency modulation response of the nature depicted by the broken line trace 52 in FIG. 4.
- the frequency deviation is approximately 2 GHz/mA which is a few times greater than the case depicted in FIG. 3 (viz., the case wherein the modulation current is injection into the active region 12).
- the frequency modulation response is limited by carrier lifetime and thus the upper limit thereof is only about 600 MHz.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide an electrode arrangement of a semiconductor laser for inducing a flat modulation frequency response in a semiconductor laser from low frequency up to about 10 GHz.
- the above objects are achieved by a method wherein, in order to induce a flat frequency modulation response in a multi-electrode semiconductor laser which includes an active region and at least one phase control region with no active layer, a modulation current is applied to both of the active region and the phase control region Further, an improved electrode arrangement for inducing a flat frequency modulation response in a multi-electrode semiconductor laser is present.
- the semiconductor laser includes three regions: an active region, a phase control region and a Bragg reflector region. Each of the active region, the phase control region and the Bragg reflector region being provided with an electrode for receiving an injection current, wherein the electrode provided for the active layer extends into the phase control region.
- a first aspect of the present invention is a method of inducing a flat frequency modulation response in a multi-electrode semiconductor laser which includes an active region and at least one phase control region with no active layer, including the step of applying a modulation current to the active region and the phase control region.
- Second aspect of the present invention is arrangement of a multi-electrode semiconductor laser which includes: a substrate; an active region formed on the substrate and having a first lightwave guide which functions as a gain medium of laser oscillation; a phase control region formed on the substrate and having a second lightwave guide for controlling phases of oscillation wavelength; a Bragg reflector region formed on the substrate and having a third lightwave guide with a grating, the first, second and third lighwave guides being connected in series; and each of the active region, the phase control region and the Bragg reflector region being provided with an electrode for receiving an injection current; characterized in that the electrode provided for the active layer extends into the phase control region.
- FIG. 1A is a perspective view of a known semiconductor laser, which has been discussed in the opening paragraphs of the instant specification;
- FIG. 1B is a cross sectional view taken from A and A';
- FIGS. 2 and 3 each is a cross section of a known semiconductor laser demonstrating a known method of direct frequency modulation, which has been discussed in the opening paragraphs of the instant specification;
- FIG. 4 is a graph showing the frequency modulation response characteristics obtained from the direct frequency modulation techniques illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 4;
- FIG. 5 illustrates a first embodiment of direct frequency modulation according to the present invention
- FIG. 6 is a graph showing a frequency modulation response according to the technique shown in FIG. 5 together with known frequency modulation responses;
- FIG. 7 illustrates second embodiment of direct frequency modulation according to the present invention
- FIG. 8 illustrates third embodiment of direct frequency modulation according to the present invention
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing a frequency modulation response characteristics obtained using the technique shown in FIG. 8;
- FIG. 10 illustrates fourth method of direct frequency response according to the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a cross sectional view of a multi-electrode laser semiconductor laser according to the present invention.
- a first direct frequency modulation technique for a semiconductor laser according to the present invention will be discussed with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.
- a four-electrode semiconductor laser chip 10' shown in FIG. 5 differs from that shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B in that the electrode 30b of the latter structure is divided two electrodes 30b', 30b". With this division of the electrode 30b, the contact layer 28b in FIGS. 1A and 1B is divided into two layers 28b' and 28b" accordingly.
- the remaining portions of the laser chip shown in FIG. 5 are identical with those in FIGS. 1A and 1B, and hence further descriptions thereof will be omitted for the sake of brevity.
- bias currents are applied to the electrodes 30a and 30b', while a wavelength control signal is applied to the electrodes 30b' and 30c.
- a modulation current is applied to both of the electrodes 30a and 30b'.
- the first embodiment features the application of the modulation current to the electrodes 30a, 30b'.
- the bias current is applied to the electrode 30b'.
- the bias current fed to the electrode 30b' is to adjust the frequency modulation efficiencies at the active and phase control regions 12, 14.
- the frequency modulation response may be plotted as indicated by a chained line 60 in FIG. 6.
- This response curve 60 is analogous to the response curve 50 shown in FIG. 4.
- the frequency modulation response may be plotted as indicated by a broken line 62, which is similar to the above-mentioned response curve 52 although the response curve is slightly changed due to the bias current applied to the electrode 30b'.
- the modulation current is applied to the electrodes 30a and 30b' while adjusting the bias current applied to the electrode 30b'.
- the resultant frequency modulation response is plotted as indicated by a solid line 64, which indicates that the response is flat over a practically useful range from 1 KHz to 5 MHz.
- a second frequency modulation technique for a semiconductor laser according to the present invention will be discussed with reference to FIG. 7.
- the three-electrode semiconductor laser chip which is shown in FIG. 7 and labeled reference numeral 10, is exactly the same as in FIGS. 1A and 1B.
- a modulation current is applied to the electrodes 30a and 30b by way of variable resistors 66 and 68, while a bias current is applied to the electrode 30b. Since the modulation current to be injected to the electrodes 30a, 30b can be controlled, the bias current adjustment is very flexible.
- the bias current injected to the electrode 30b is used to adjust the frequency modulation efficiencies at the active and phase control regions 12, 14 as in the first embodiment. The experiment conducted by the inventors reveals that when the modulation current injected to the regions 12, 14 is adjusted to a ratio of 3:1, a flat frequency modulation response over a wide range was obtained.
- a third direct frequency modulation technique for a semiconductor laser according to the present invention will be discussed with reference to FIG. 8.
- a laser chip of the third embodiment, depicted by reference numeral 11, is of a DFB (Distributed Feedback) type and known to those skilled in the art.
- the DFB type laser chip 11 Before turning to the third embodiment, the DFB type laser chip 11 will briefly be described.
- the laser chip 11 includes two regions: a DFB (viz., active) region 80 (300 ⁇ m long) and a phase control region 82 (100 ⁇ m long).
- An n-InP substrate 84 carries a grating 86 (2400 ⁇ pitch) on the top surface thereof at the DFB region 80.
- An InGaAsP wave guide layer 87 (0.3 ⁇ m thickness, 1.3 ⁇ m wavelength) is present on the substrate 84.
- a InGaAsP active layer 88 (0.1 ⁇ m thickness, 1.5 ⁇ m wavelength) is formed on the portion of the wave guide layer 87, which is positioned above the grating 86.
- a p-InP cladding layer 90 (2 ⁇ m thickness) is formed on the portion of the wave guide 87 and the active layer 88.
- a p-InGaAsP contact layer (0.5 ⁇ m thickness) is grown over the entire region of the cladding layer 90, after which an electrode layer is formed on the entire surface of the contact layer.
- the contact and electrode layers undergo preferential etching to be divided into two electrically isolated electrodes.
- the divided contact layers of the regions 80, 82 are respectively denoted by 94b, 94a, while the divided electrodes of the regions 80, 82 are represented by 92b, 92a, respectively.
- another electrode 96 is formed on the side of the substrate 84, which is opposite to the wave guide layer 90.
- a mesa stripe (not shown) is formed as shown in FIG. 1A, after which Fe-doped InP layers (not shown) are formed on either side thereof as shown in FIG. 1A.
- the grating 86 When a current is injected into the active layer 88, the grating 86 functions as a reflecting mirror of the laser and thus lasing oscillation occurs. Part of the laser light produced at the active layer 88, enters the phase control region 82 and reflected at the left edge of the laser and thereafter fed back to the active layer 88.
- the third direct frequency modulation will be discussed with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9.
- the modulation current is first attenuated to an appropriate value at an attenuator 102, after which the low frequency current of the output of the attenuator 102 is injected to the phase control region 82 using a low-pass filter 104.
- the frequency modulation response when the low frequency current is injected to the electrode 92a (viz., the phase control region 82), is plotted as indicated by a broken line 106.
- the frequency modulation at the phase control region 82 is induced by blue-shift, while the thermal effect in the low frequency range at the active layer 88 is the red-shift.
- the modulation current is directly injected to the DFB (active) region 80, while the low frequency of the modulation signal is injected to the phase control region 82.
- a flat frequency modulation response can be obtained which is plotted as indicated by a solid line 108.
- a fourth direct frequency modulation technique for a semiconductor laser according to the present invention will be discussed with reference to FIG. 10.
- a four-electrode semiconductor laser chip 11' shown in FIG. 10 differs from that shown in FIG. 8 in that the electrode 92b of the latter structure is divided three electrodes 92b', 92c' and 92d'. With this division of the electrode 92b, the contact layer 94b in FIG. 10 is divided into three layers 94b', 94c' and 94d' accordingly.
- the remaining portions of the laser chip shown in FIG. 10 are identical with those in FIG. 8, and hence further descriptions thereof will be omitted for the sake of brevity.
- the laser chip shown in FIG. 10 is of a conventional type.
- bias currents are applied to the three electrodes 92b'-92d' of the DFB region 80.
- the laser chip 11' should be biased in a manner that the bias current injected to the electrode 92c' is high.
- the frequency modulation response at the DFB region 80 exhibits the red-shift over an entire frequency range, but, the frequency modulation efficiency in a lower frequency range undesirably increases. Accordingly, a desirable flat frequency modulation response has not been obtained.
- the fourth embodiment is to overcome the above-mentioned difficulty that the frequency modulation efficiency in a low frequency range is undesirably high as compared with that in a high frequency range.
- a high-pass filter 110 is provided to inject high frequency modulation currents to the electrode 92c' of the DFB region 80, while an attenuator 112 is provided to decrease the modulation current to an appropriate value. Since the frequency modulation characteristics at the phase and DFB regions are inversed, a phase inverse amplifier 114 precedes the attenuator 112. In more detail, the frequency modulation up to about 100 MHz, wherein a flat response is expected at the phase control region 82, is performed at the region 82. On the other hand, the frequency modulation more than 100 MHz is implemented at the DFB region 80.
- the modulation current injected to the electrode 92a is controlled by the attenuator 112. It should be noted that the bias current applied to the electrode 92c' should be kept high as in the conventional technique. A flat frequency modulation response, ranging from DC (direct current) to more than 100 MHz, has been obtained.
- a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be discussed with reference to FIG. 11.
- the fifth embodiment relates to a DBR type semiconductor laser which features an improved electrode arrangement.
- the body of the laser shown in FIG. 11 is identical to that shown in FIGS. 1B and 1C, and hence redundant descriptions of the same portions will be omitted for brevity.
- the electrode arrangement shown in FIG. 11 differs from that of FIGS. 1A and 1B in that: (a) one end of an electrode 130a of FIG. 11 extends into the phase control region 14 and (b) one end of an electrode 130b provided on the region 14 retracts accordingly. With this arrangement, corresponding contact layers 132a and 132b are configured to meet the arrangements of electrodes 130a and 130b, respectively. According to the fifth embodiment, there is no need for the modulation current to be injected to the regions 12 and 14 by way of two electrodes as in the first embodiment (FIG. 5). By way of example, when the length of the active layer 12 is 300 ⁇ m and the light output is set to 10 mW, the electrode 130a extends into the phase control region 14 by 30 ⁇ m. According to the experiment by the inventors, the frequency modulation response obtained was similar to the response shown in FIG. 6.
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